Educational Background

Ph.D., 1984
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Master of Architecture, 1978
Rice University
Houston, Texas

Bachelor of Architecture, 1975
Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul, Turkey

Honors and Awards

Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award for best dissertation in Humanities, Middle East Studies Association, 1984.

Distinguished Teaching Association Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1980-81.

Recent Selected Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity

Research in French colonial architecture and urbanism in Algeria.

Books in progress: Architecture and the City in the Nineteenth Century; The Modern City; and Memory, Modernity and Colonialism.

Selected Publications

"Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse at the World's Columbian Exposition," in Holly Edwards, ed. A Million and One Nights: Orientalism in American Culture, 1870-1930. Princeton University Press, 2000

"Colonial/Postcolonial Intersections: Lieux de Mémoire in Algiers," Third Text 49 (Winter 1999-2000).

"New Approaches to the Non-Western City," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 58/3 (September 1999).

Selected Academic, Professional and Public Service

Editor, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2000-2003

Guest Curator, "Walls of Algiers," The Getty Research Institute

Advisory Board, Mugarnas

Editorial Board, Thresholds

Board of Directors, Society of Architectural Historians

Board of Directors, American Institute of Maghribi Studies

Professional Membership

Society of Architectural Historians

College Art Association

Middle Eastern Studies Association

American Institute of Maghribi Studies

Turkish Studies